Camilo Catrillanca

Camilo Catrillanca (13 September 1994-14 November 2018) was a Chilean Mapuche man who was shot in the back by a member of the Carabineros de Chile in an incident which became a political scandal and a sign of the persecution of Native Americans in Chile.

Biography
Camilo Catrillanca was born in Victoria, Chile in 1994, the grandson of a Mapuche lonco (chief) and the son of the president of the Mapuche community. He became a student movement leader at the Liceo de Pailahueque, and he became a Native American rights activist. On 14 November 2018, he was shot in the back and killed by the Carabineros de Chile jungle commando as he rode on a blue tractor, leading to widespread demonstrations in protest against his undue killing, and to an investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death.